Post by Piyano on Jan 2, 2017 4:31:08 GMT -5
Taking this Job
The southern continent of Earth was currently the lands Piyano had the least experience with on the blue world. Though the man could not deny the beauty of Earth's southern lands the large quantity of seas and oceans, broken up by natural archipelagos greatly reminded the Namekian of his home planet. The hearty reminder was what kept Piyano away from the south lands until now, the green man could claim it was because he wished to spend time in new environments and lands since he was currently living upon a new planet. In the end however the truth was as simply as Piyano's aching heart missing his home world. With how closely Namek and the south hemisphere resembled each other Piyano found himself even now wishing to travel the stars back to his people. Such thinking could not be allowed however, as Piyano did not yet possess the level strength he had been sent to Earth to aquire, and to return now would simply be to return in disgrace. A failure to his elders.
Hoping to prevent his mind from spiraling into further thoughts of home Piyano reminded himself of why he was even in the southern lands. In the months since his arrival on Earth Piyano had been proving himself a man of the people, no matter what race or country the people were from. Nothing Piyano did was ever meant to be for fame, his actions so far where always for a cause of great good. Yet with word spreading about a Namekian taking up work of any kind for low pay and high success the green man was finding himself being contacted more and more to assist others with their daily lives, chores, or in some rare cases... more sinister troubles. Today's mission was one such occurrence, contacted by the Amenbo Robotic's and Design corporation Piyano had been hired on to help run down the source of the companies recently discovered missing funds. Piyano wasn't sure why the company had sought him out for assistance, but the Namekian was sure that his good recommendations from Jingle Town, Kal-Hazari of Pepper Town, and Karl the Duck King of East City were involved.
Passing over a small quartet of islands as he flew overhead Piyano saw his destination growing out of the horizon. Amenbo Island, home of Sasebo City. The island was easily the largest island Piyano had seen in the entire region and it was no surprise for the man to discover that the shining jewel of light at the islands center was Sasebo. Piyano had witnessed grand towers in his time on Earth, as well as simple villages, hunkered towns full of community and all manner of other cities in his time on Earth. Sasebo however was something different all together, hover cars and machines flew through the air all over the large city. Lights and technology existed here in a fashion far superior to any other location Piyano had yet witnessed with his own eyes, and the city gleamed like a thing of the future pulled into the modern time by some explainable force. Flying into the confines of the city Piyano searched for several minutes until he spotted the designated meeting place.
Landing smoothly upon a large helipad, the big red letter H far to large for a person such as Piyano to need for a proper land, the Namekian was greeted by human woman who came running up to him upon touching down. "Thank you for meeting with us today mister Piyano. If you would follow me down to the conference room we can begin your debriefing." the woman said in a manner lacking of any emotion or sincerity. Piyano found the greeting odd enough, but even stranger to the Namekian was that he could not read this woman's power. She didn't even possess the power of a traditional human, it was like she didn't exist at all. "Fascinating." was all the green man could say as he followed the woman to a nearby elevator. His guide into Amenbo Robotic's was a stunning raven haired woman who stood just underneath Piyano's great height, with hazel-green eyes and a pale complexion the woman stood straight and rigid.
As the pair descended within the elevator Piyano blatantly looked the woman over, her clothes a red business suit ending in a skirt and a large brown trench coat that was parted in the front seemed unusual to Piyano in that they were spotlessly clean. It was as if the woman had never taken them off. After several minutes of rude starring from Piyano the woman turned toward him, neither her gaze nor her face showed any signs of displeasure. In fact she showed no emotion at all. "May I assist you with something Mister Piyano?" the woman asked in her strangely cold voice.
Piyano back away a step than, he didn't truly wish for anything from the human but something about her just seemed completely off to the aliens sensibilities. "What is your name?" Piyano asked, mostly because it was the only thing he could think too. "I am designated as Android Amenbo Model. 553-9091999. For short I am called 99 by most." the woman replied as the elevator stopped and opened. Without waiting for a reply 99 walked out of the lift and continued to guide Piyano to the conference room. Piyano wordless followed after the robot, Piyano had learned of Android and Cyborgs from his elders back on Namek, but this was the mans first time ever meeting one face to face.
Both very intrigued and confused Piyano took his seat in the conference room with his eyes still on 99, at least until other people forced him to pay attention to them. Inside the room Piyano was briefed by several employees about how the the company had discovered that someone had been digitally stealing annual funds through a advanced security breach algorithm. The information was entirely lost upon Piyano, as the Namekian knew next to nothing about computers beyond imputing coordinates for a space ship. After nearly two hours of information simply being piled into his lap Piyano had enough of the briefing. To the point that he held up his hand to stop everyone's chatter. "Tell you what. Let us move on to the part where I am supposed to help you all with." the Namekian said, and from the embarrassed look on the faces of all gather except for 99 Piyano was sure that he had made his point.
"Yes yes, you see Mister Piyano. We believe we found our hacker." said a human with thick glasses as he pulled up a photo which was promptly handed to Piyano. "In order to not lose stock prices for the company we have avoided contacting the police or reporting the loss of funds. Normally we would send a android or two to collect the hacker and our money, but should Amenbo robots be discovered illegally breaking into homes and assault civilains. Well things would look truly dire for us than." the human added a moment later and suddenly Piyano knew why he was here.
"You wish for me to apprehend your thief. Or at least your money." Piyano said as realization struck. Not being a member of Amenbo, or even from the island Piyano would by the company space if anything went wrong. Something about the whole situation tasted foul to Piyano, but he couldn't quite figure out why. Perhaps it was just the fact that Namekian's would never conduct a business meeting in such a way. "I will find your hacker. I promise you." was all Piynao said as he stood and walked out of the room. Reaching the elevator Piyano was surprised to find 99 walking beside him. The Namekian's raised brow asked his questions for him, "I have been assigned to supervise your actions for liability purposes." 99 said without looking at him. Piyano wasn't sure how he felt about that, but he spoke no words as the pair exited from the room, both taking to the air in the last known direction of the hacker.
The very northern tip of Sasebo City was home to several rundown apartment complexes and warehouses. Thanks to the photograph that had been given to him Piyano found the complex he was looking for in under a hour. Landing at ground level Piyano and 99 checked all the structures doors, only to find that each one was locked tight. "What is the point of a lock if the door is made from wood?" Piyano wondered aloud as he simply forced a door open, the lock snapping under the force of his push. 99 made no reply as she simply followed Piyano into the rundown building.
Inside the apartment was old and worn, dust settled everywhere, paint peeled off the walls. Yet everything about the place screamed at Piyano's senses. Careful to keep his eyes open for danger the Namekian barely made it down the first hallway before a trap was sprung. A trip wire along the floor tripped Piyano up and sounded a loud click from in front of him. Using all his training to throw himself flat against the wall on his left Piyano barely managed to dodge the blast of a shotgun wired cleverly into a old piece of furniture several steps ahead of him. "Phew... lucky us huh 99?" Piyano said turning to his partner/supervisor only to see the front of the woman's clothes torn, revealing her flat stomach. "Lucky indeed Mister Piyano." the woman said completely unphased by the shotgun blast as she continued forward past him.
The incident made Piyano shrug as he and 99 encounter no less than ten other traps througout the building during their search. Sometimes Piyano set off a trap, sometimes 99 did. in either case the Namekian found himself dodging out of harms way every time, while 99 just ate the brunt of whatever came forth. The Android was completely unharmed even if parts of her clothes continued to tear, Piyano found himself wondering why it was even worth the company hiring him the more he witnessed 99's indestructibility. After several hours the pair discovered a single room containing a advanced set up of computers, wiring, and electrical devises. Piyano knew nothing about the systems so he left them to be searched by 99. Instead Piyano searched the rather large room for more traps or for the hacker, but sadly the Namekian found nothing.
Walking up beside 99 Piyano saw that the woman had jacked a cable from her now exposed wrist into the computer, the screen displaying large amounts of information very quickly. "Find anything good?" Piyano asked, his companion only nodded as she finished her search and download of the computer. "This is definitely the terminal that hacked Amenbo Robotic's, I have found the funds, as well as the hackers name-..." 99 started to say before she was cut off. The computer screen suddenly turned a brilliant scarlet, thick black numbers started counting down from five.
99 wasn't moving for some reason, Piyano could only figure the woman had been disabled in some way. Running out of time with three seconds remaining Piyano grabbed the android and heaved her body with all his strength at a nearby window in the room. Glass shattered and 99 fell away even as Piyano felt his back alight with fire! A blinding flash of light sent the Namekian soaring as he too was tossed out the window of the apartment, the explosion throwing him a hundred yards before he ever hit the ground. The last thing Piyano saw before he blacked out was the whole complex on fire, slowly burning to the ground.
"Wake up!" said a voice nearly a hour later as rough hands shook hard against Piyano's chest. Groggily the Namekian opened his eyes to see 99's stunning face. It would have been nice to imagine the woman showing concern on her features, but she was as emotionless as ever. "Wake up Mister Piyano." 99 said again before a string of coughs escaped him. "I'm awake 99." Piyano said as he tried to get too his feet, only to learn he was minus a foot. The explosion had completely removed one of Piyano's legs. Any other person or race would be in shock from the loss, but Piyano was of Namek. So instead the man just concentrated, closing his eyes to focus the alien felt a sudden sharp spike of pain and when he opened his eyes again a new leg was there. Dripping juice fluids and feeling completely awkward Piyano found his feet with 99's help.
Secured in the woman's arms Piyano hung on as 99 began to fly them back to Amenbo Robotic's, they made it almost half way before 99 asked Piyano a very serious question. "Mister Piyano, how did you know I had completely downloaded the terminals hard drive? you risked your life when I can simply be rebuilt?" 99 asked. Piyano could only sigh at the question, "I didn't know you had downloaded anything. It was simply the right thing to do." he replied as the pair flew back in silence. All the money and the name of the hacker was given to the Amenbo board of Directors later that night. 99 having fully secured the information before Piyano had thrown her from the blast.
End
Word Count: 2236
The southern continent of Earth was currently the lands Piyano had the least experience with on the blue world. Though the man could not deny the beauty of Earth's southern lands the large quantity of seas and oceans, broken up by natural archipelagos greatly reminded the Namekian of his home planet. The hearty reminder was what kept Piyano away from the south lands until now, the green man could claim it was because he wished to spend time in new environments and lands since he was currently living upon a new planet. In the end however the truth was as simply as Piyano's aching heart missing his home world. With how closely Namek and the south hemisphere resembled each other Piyano found himself even now wishing to travel the stars back to his people. Such thinking could not be allowed however, as Piyano did not yet possess the level strength he had been sent to Earth to aquire, and to return now would simply be to return in disgrace. A failure to his elders.
Hoping to prevent his mind from spiraling into further thoughts of home Piyano reminded himself of why he was even in the southern lands. In the months since his arrival on Earth Piyano had been proving himself a man of the people, no matter what race or country the people were from. Nothing Piyano did was ever meant to be for fame, his actions so far where always for a cause of great good. Yet with word spreading about a Namekian taking up work of any kind for low pay and high success the green man was finding himself being contacted more and more to assist others with their daily lives, chores, or in some rare cases... more sinister troubles. Today's mission was one such occurrence, contacted by the Amenbo Robotic's and Design corporation Piyano had been hired on to help run down the source of the companies recently discovered missing funds. Piyano wasn't sure why the company had sought him out for assistance, but the Namekian was sure that his good recommendations from Jingle Town, Kal-Hazari of Pepper Town, and Karl the Duck King of East City were involved.
Passing over a small quartet of islands as he flew overhead Piyano saw his destination growing out of the horizon. Amenbo Island, home of Sasebo City. The island was easily the largest island Piyano had seen in the entire region and it was no surprise for the man to discover that the shining jewel of light at the islands center was Sasebo. Piyano had witnessed grand towers in his time on Earth, as well as simple villages, hunkered towns full of community and all manner of other cities in his time on Earth. Sasebo however was something different all together, hover cars and machines flew through the air all over the large city. Lights and technology existed here in a fashion far superior to any other location Piyano had yet witnessed with his own eyes, and the city gleamed like a thing of the future pulled into the modern time by some explainable force. Flying into the confines of the city Piyano searched for several minutes until he spotted the designated meeting place.
Landing smoothly upon a large helipad, the big red letter H far to large for a person such as Piyano to need for a proper land, the Namekian was greeted by human woman who came running up to him upon touching down. "Thank you for meeting with us today mister Piyano. If you would follow me down to the conference room we can begin your debriefing." the woman said in a manner lacking of any emotion or sincerity. Piyano found the greeting odd enough, but even stranger to the Namekian was that he could not read this woman's power. She didn't even possess the power of a traditional human, it was like she didn't exist at all. "Fascinating." was all the green man could say as he followed the woman to a nearby elevator. His guide into Amenbo Robotic's was a stunning raven haired woman who stood just underneath Piyano's great height, with hazel-green eyes and a pale complexion the woman stood straight and rigid.
As the pair descended within the elevator Piyano blatantly looked the woman over, her clothes a red business suit ending in a skirt and a large brown trench coat that was parted in the front seemed unusual to Piyano in that they were spotlessly clean. It was as if the woman had never taken them off. After several minutes of rude starring from Piyano the woman turned toward him, neither her gaze nor her face showed any signs of displeasure. In fact she showed no emotion at all. "May I assist you with something Mister Piyano?" the woman asked in her strangely cold voice.
Piyano back away a step than, he didn't truly wish for anything from the human but something about her just seemed completely off to the aliens sensibilities. "What is your name?" Piyano asked, mostly because it was the only thing he could think too. "I am designated as Android Amenbo Model. 553-9091999. For short I am called 99 by most." the woman replied as the elevator stopped and opened. Without waiting for a reply 99 walked out of the lift and continued to guide Piyano to the conference room. Piyano wordless followed after the robot, Piyano had learned of Android and Cyborgs from his elders back on Namek, but this was the mans first time ever meeting one face to face.
Both very intrigued and confused Piyano took his seat in the conference room with his eyes still on 99, at least until other people forced him to pay attention to them. Inside the room Piyano was briefed by several employees about how the the company had discovered that someone had been digitally stealing annual funds through a advanced security breach algorithm. The information was entirely lost upon Piyano, as the Namekian knew next to nothing about computers beyond imputing coordinates for a space ship. After nearly two hours of information simply being piled into his lap Piyano had enough of the briefing. To the point that he held up his hand to stop everyone's chatter. "Tell you what. Let us move on to the part where I am supposed to help you all with." the Namekian said, and from the embarrassed look on the faces of all gather except for 99 Piyano was sure that he had made his point.
"Yes yes, you see Mister Piyano. We believe we found our hacker." said a human with thick glasses as he pulled up a photo which was promptly handed to Piyano. "In order to not lose stock prices for the company we have avoided contacting the police or reporting the loss of funds. Normally we would send a android or two to collect the hacker and our money, but should Amenbo robots be discovered illegally breaking into homes and assault civilains. Well things would look truly dire for us than." the human added a moment later and suddenly Piyano knew why he was here.
"You wish for me to apprehend your thief. Or at least your money." Piyano said as realization struck. Not being a member of Amenbo, or even from the island Piyano would by the company space if anything went wrong. Something about the whole situation tasted foul to Piyano, but he couldn't quite figure out why. Perhaps it was just the fact that Namekian's would never conduct a business meeting in such a way. "I will find your hacker. I promise you." was all Piynao said as he stood and walked out of the room. Reaching the elevator Piyano was surprised to find 99 walking beside him. The Namekian's raised brow asked his questions for him, "I have been assigned to supervise your actions for liability purposes." 99 said without looking at him. Piyano wasn't sure how he felt about that, but he spoke no words as the pair exited from the room, both taking to the air in the last known direction of the hacker.
The very northern tip of Sasebo City was home to several rundown apartment complexes and warehouses. Thanks to the photograph that had been given to him Piyano found the complex he was looking for in under a hour. Landing at ground level Piyano and 99 checked all the structures doors, only to find that each one was locked tight. "What is the point of a lock if the door is made from wood?" Piyano wondered aloud as he simply forced a door open, the lock snapping under the force of his push. 99 made no reply as she simply followed Piyano into the rundown building.
Inside the apartment was old and worn, dust settled everywhere, paint peeled off the walls. Yet everything about the place screamed at Piyano's senses. Careful to keep his eyes open for danger the Namekian barely made it down the first hallway before a trap was sprung. A trip wire along the floor tripped Piyano up and sounded a loud click from in front of him. Using all his training to throw himself flat against the wall on his left Piyano barely managed to dodge the blast of a shotgun wired cleverly into a old piece of furniture several steps ahead of him. "Phew... lucky us huh 99?" Piyano said turning to his partner/supervisor only to see the front of the woman's clothes torn, revealing her flat stomach. "Lucky indeed Mister Piyano." the woman said completely unphased by the shotgun blast as she continued forward past him.
The incident made Piyano shrug as he and 99 encounter no less than ten other traps througout the building during their search. Sometimes Piyano set off a trap, sometimes 99 did. in either case the Namekian found himself dodging out of harms way every time, while 99 just ate the brunt of whatever came forth. The Android was completely unharmed even if parts of her clothes continued to tear, Piyano found himself wondering why it was even worth the company hiring him the more he witnessed 99's indestructibility. After several hours the pair discovered a single room containing a advanced set up of computers, wiring, and electrical devises. Piyano knew nothing about the systems so he left them to be searched by 99. Instead Piyano searched the rather large room for more traps or for the hacker, but sadly the Namekian found nothing.
Walking up beside 99 Piyano saw that the woman had jacked a cable from her now exposed wrist into the computer, the screen displaying large amounts of information very quickly. "Find anything good?" Piyano asked, his companion only nodded as she finished her search and download of the computer. "This is definitely the terminal that hacked Amenbo Robotic's, I have found the funds, as well as the hackers name-..." 99 started to say before she was cut off. The computer screen suddenly turned a brilliant scarlet, thick black numbers started counting down from five.
99 wasn't moving for some reason, Piyano could only figure the woman had been disabled in some way. Running out of time with three seconds remaining Piyano grabbed the android and heaved her body with all his strength at a nearby window in the room. Glass shattered and 99 fell away even as Piyano felt his back alight with fire! A blinding flash of light sent the Namekian soaring as he too was tossed out the window of the apartment, the explosion throwing him a hundred yards before he ever hit the ground. The last thing Piyano saw before he blacked out was the whole complex on fire, slowly burning to the ground.
"Wake up!" said a voice nearly a hour later as rough hands shook hard against Piyano's chest. Groggily the Namekian opened his eyes to see 99's stunning face. It would have been nice to imagine the woman showing concern on her features, but she was as emotionless as ever. "Wake up Mister Piyano." 99 said again before a string of coughs escaped him. "I'm awake 99." Piyano said as he tried to get too his feet, only to learn he was minus a foot. The explosion had completely removed one of Piyano's legs. Any other person or race would be in shock from the loss, but Piyano was of Namek. So instead the man just concentrated, closing his eyes to focus the alien felt a sudden sharp spike of pain and when he opened his eyes again a new leg was there. Dripping juice fluids and feeling completely awkward Piyano found his feet with 99's help.
Secured in the woman's arms Piyano hung on as 99 began to fly them back to Amenbo Robotic's, they made it almost half way before 99 asked Piyano a very serious question. "Mister Piyano, how did you know I had completely downloaded the terminals hard drive? you risked your life when I can simply be rebuilt?" 99 asked. Piyano could only sigh at the question, "I didn't know you had downloaded anything. It was simply the right thing to do." he replied as the pair flew back in silence. All the money and the name of the hacker was given to the Amenbo board of Directors later that night. 99 having fully secured the information before Piyano had thrown her from the blast.
End
Word Count: 2236
